I tried streaming for the first time over the weekend. Damn is it hard to keep talking for multiple hours straight. Especially when there’s zero messages in the chat. Streamers make it look normal but damn is it not
Get a producer or anyone with you and talk to them. That’s how radio and TV broadcasters used to do it. They would talk to the console or camera operator. Eventually it becomes natural to talk by yourself. It does look like unhinged behavior without the context. But it is an old skill, as old as radio broadcast. Try acting monologues to yourself, it also helps.
But why? If you don’t enjoy it, why try to get into streaming? The chances that it’ll pay back for itself are incredibly small and it takes years of consistent streaming to get any kind of consistent audience.
If you do enjoy it, then by all means, practice a bit so it gets more natural (and more enjoyable).
OP left no indication of whether they enjoy or not. Just that it is hard. And it is hard. Broadcasters are trained formally to do it. It requires improvisation skills, acting and physical and mental stamina. But, it can also be very rewarding. Like most things in life, there’s some level of initial discomfort and hardship involved in getting to do or experience cool things. You get to choose what you want to face or not.
Oh for sure. I know some people who really enjoy it, and it is work.
That said, there seems to be some weird fascination w/ streaming/YouTubing, so I feel like people feel some pressure to get into it. How it’s presented is very different from the work that goes into it, so I’m just pointing out that if it’s not enjoyable, it’s probably not a you problem.
do it for fun. I dabbled a little to no audiece, I just liked putting on a show. No one’s watching, well, no one listens to my music either.
Share your twitch, I’ll follow u
Lmao sure ♥️ https://twitch.tv/dginovker
Chat, am I cooked?
Clip that, chat.
My middle-school aged kids explained the difference between cooked and cookin’ to me the other day, and now they really get to roll their eyes when I intentionally use them in as corny ways as possible.
Bonus points for coming with other, terrible, slang. You can really get a cringe if you say something like "Chat, we’re cookin’ now - I’m all rizzed up”
same but for everything in my life.
i know, that sounds schizo as fuck, my dear chat members.
I live alone, I too talk to the imaginary camera to keep sane. At least I think it keeps me sane.
Thanks for the bits, bananaman66764.
Ah see, I talk to my cat when I’m at home. It isn’t just me talking to myself, it’s enrichment for my little furry buddy!
I watch you all the time, keep going FeelsStrongMan
It’s fine until the audience starts talking back.
chat is this real?
chat, are you real?
Chat, are you for real?
Talking to myself helps me remember stuff and figure out stuff faster.
It’s your game, role-play how you want. Wage slaving tends to beat the ability to plat out of some of us. Have fun your way.
I certainly wouldnt want to play pretend being a streamer. It looks like the world’s most exhausting job ever. Having to constantly have a web presence everywhere, talking to Randoms 24/7, being unable to switch what game you’re playing because your fan base is the most niche interest group possible.
Hell no, not for me. My basement, my games.
“Normal”? Probably.
Good? Probably not.
Might as well just stream
I have thought about showing off my gigantic single player creative mode Minecraft map through a live stream for years, I spent most of my free time over a decade of manually just building huge, huge structures.
And pretending to show it off to a live stream, talking about it and explaining it makes it easier to remember what/why/how I built stuff…
Anon wants to livestream
You want to livestream
You should both livestream
I think they’d make a cute couple
Which could make for a more lucrative live stream if they’re into that…
Twitch doesn’t allow porn.
Other places do, though.
Two platforms, double the monetisation of the things you enjoy until every single bit of your life has been consumed by capitalism.
Give it a few more years
yeah, I also like to make up a fake portal-esque story when playing something like people playground.
If it helps you focus, it’s just another form of rubber ducking
Rubber ducking? Is that when you tape a ducky to your fupa and dry hump something/someone to get the squeaky sound?
No.
Please. Rubber ducking. Someone?
It’s when you talk through a problem with an inanimate object, traditionally a rubber duck. The process of explaining the problem can help you organize your thoughts and identify otherwise elusive problems. It’s a common technique used by programmers debugging their code.
If you learn your ways of speech from streamers and YouTube videos, and all of them talk in 2nd person to their audience, then your learned language will sound very similar to the English you listened to.
…we don’t all do this?
I used to do this as a kid constantly before streaming ever existed.
Taking a piss outside? Literally competing for the longest piss distance tournament and taking the gold.
Are you still winning?
Isn’t that statistically what most twitch streamers do
Software engineers call this rubber duck debugging
